The results of the 2014 Jewish Community Study of St. Louis are based on 1,003 completed RDD-based (random digit dialed) interviews with a Jewish household respondent in the City of St. Louis, St. Louis County and St. Charles County. The study was conducted for the Jewish Federation of St. Louis by JPAR, Jewish Policy & Action Analysis.

Among the major findings of the 2014 St. Louis Jewish Community Study:

Jewish Population

• The number of Jewish persons in St. Louis in 2014 is estimated to be 61,100; in 1995, the number of Jewish persons was 53,400, for an apparent increase of 14% from 1995 to 2014.

In 1995, the prior study, the number of Jewish persons living in 24,600 Jewish households was estimated to be 53,400 (plus 600 institutionalized Jewish persons). Published reports from 1995 stressed a 60,000 "Jewish...